Quotes by : Quincy Jones

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry....

Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys....

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put....

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,....

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A....

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.